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The aim of the workshop is to gather researchersand practitioners interested in answering the posed question. Particularly, wesingle out three main scientific areas, for which research feedback isexpected.

The first domain of interest addresses the designand implementation of ontological structures that are strongly influenced byphilosophy, but are still reasonably applicable. The area includes foundationalapproach driven ontology creation strategies for concrete domains andapplications.

The linguistic investigations concerning nationaland multi-language semantic lexicons provide, among other resources, also thetop-level ontologies. The second considered research area addresses the problemof using such ontologies (possibly accompanied by other linguistic resources)to build well-founded and tractable domain conceptual models.

Most ontology-building approaches proposed bycomputer engineers employ algorithimcs (i.e. data mining, machine learningetc.). Even though they benefit from the automation at the same time theysuffer from the bad (ontic) quality of obtained ontologies. Thus, issuesconcerned with bridging the gap between bottom-up automatically engineeredontologies and foundational/top-level manually created ones, constitute thethird scientific area we are strongly interested in.

The workshop is associated with the 7thInternational Symposium: Advances in Artificial Intelligence andApplications (AAIA'12), that is a partof Federated Conference on Computer Science and InformationSystems (FedCSIS), to be held in Wrocław, Poland, 9-12 September 2012, under auspices of Polish Ministry of Science andHigher Education.

Important DatesPaper submission: April 22, 2012Author notification: June 17, 2012Final submission and registration: July 8, 2012